After Luna landed her car into a sewer canal, the catgirls approached an open sewer tunnel.

Rei pinched her snort. "Simhan! That tunnel smells like a whale had diarrhea!"

Luna pulled out her T-gun. "It is the only way to reach the water facility. You can stay or stick tissue up your nose."

Rei stepped into the tunnel behind Luna. "I can't see!"

"Use your night vision, fool! Mine is on too."

"Oh!" Rei narrowed her until her vision changed to light green. She could see almost the entire tunnel. Brick walls in a circular pathway, and a river of muck covered in trash. Still, it didn't help her above the unimaginable stench.

"Let’s move!" Luna splashed into the sewer muck and stepped forward.

Rei stared at the dark water. "Ewwwwwww! I wished I was wearing water pants!"

"Hurry!" Luna shouted.

While trying not to think about what was in the river, Rei dropped into the water and followed Luna. The water reached her waist, and it smelled worse. After they terminate Baby Shark, she will surely take a shower.

Rei glanced around. "Is there anything here….. I should know?"

"Besides walking through shit?" Luna chuckled. "You bet your ass you should be aware down here."

"Like what?"

Luna pushed an empty box from her path. "The sewer system is worse than the Underbelly. There are freaks above, but the freaks down here are freakier. Besides the rats, homeless, and trash, we got feral Humanimals down here. Deadly weirdos who lost their humanity to drugs or brain damage. They scavenge and attack anything normal. If you see one, put it out of its misery."

Rei gulped and darted her eyes around. "Now you tell me?"

"You asked! Stop being a pussy!"

Rei growled inside her closed mouth. I am a pussy….. But I am not a coward.

Her ears raised when something dripped behind her. She looked back, only seeing ripples drifted across the water. It must have been a rat, and rats are afraid of cats. Rei hoped so.

She turned back and noticed her partner wasn't in front of her. "Luna?"

She dashed forward and looked around. Her partner wasn't anywhere, as if she vanished without leaving "Luna!"

How could her partner leave her behind without telling her? Unless…..

Rei place her gun into her holster and splashed the water, trying to find her partner. "Luna! Luna!"

Her partner wasn't in the water. Did somebody grab her from nowhere?

Rei paused when she felt something rose behind her and growled. Her heart raced, and a frog dropped her throat.

As she turned around, a large shadow loomed over her from the water. It opened its mouth, revealing sharp fangs inside a wide-open mouth. And its foul rotten egg breath stunk worse than the sewer.

Rei opened her mouth to scream, but the creature's head exploded. Blood and spinks of guts flew past her, and some landed in her hair. The headless body fell into the water, revealing Luna standing behind it with a smoking shotgun in her hands.

Rei trembled as her voice slowly returned to her throat. "Wah! Wah! What is that!"

Luna blew smoke from her barrel. "A big ass Humanimal sewer croc."

"That's a Humanimal?"

Luna glared at her. "Of course he is! Ever seen a crocodile stand on two legs?" She kicked the corpse by her knee. "Next time, shoot the S.O. B!"

Rei lowered her ears, feeling disappointed to herself. She took a deep gulp and glared at Luna. "What happened to you? You gave me a heart attack!"

Luna pointed her shotgun at the corpse. "That bastard tried to drown me! Sorry, but it took me some time to resurface."

Rei shouldn't doubt Luna again. And she definitely needed a shower.

Down the tunnel where the catgirls came from, loud splashes moving toward them. It sounded like a tidal wave flowing through the tunnel.

Rei and Luna saw a wave, but it wasn't just a wave. A swarm of crocodiles was charging through the wave and roaring at the same time. Some of them were also crawling across the wall. Tidal wave plus a stampede of crocs!

"Move!" Luna picked up Rei and held her over Luna's left shoulder.

Rei gasped, almost dropping her gun.

Luna dashed forward while holding Rei's body. "Shoot them!"

Rei aimed with one eye open, then fired. She shot one croc, but they were still charging.

"Use something that doesn't miss!" Luna shouted.

"Oh!" Rei stared at her weapon. "Auuuuuuuuh- grenade launcher!"

"Grenade launcher!" Her gun expanded into a small cannon, and the rotating barrel popped down.

"Here comes a kaboom!" She aimed and blasted one energy ball.

Her shot landed in front of the crocs and exploded. Water and pieces of green flesh splattered against the walls.

Rei shot her fist up. "Heeheehee! Meos-issneun!"

The other crocs swarm past the gore, speeding up.

Rei's mouth dropped. "They are still charging toward us!"

"Of course they are!" Luna hissed while moving as fast as possible through the water. "They're feral! Keep firing!"

Rei aimed again. Whatever may those Humanimals lost their sanity, it must be tragic. But Rei won't die in a stinky sewer. She preferred to die peacefully in a peaceful garden with roses and cherry blossom trees. Or on a beach where she could watch the sunset for the last time.

"Eat this, ppalpans!" Rei fired again, blowing up the frontal attackers.

Still, they kept charging, and Rei kept firing.

Geez, their hunger must be driving them insane, erasing their logical sense of survival. The smart monsters would avoid the energy grenades at all costs for their lives. But those sewer crocs were the exception. Dying for food was a waste of living unless they could get the food for the last time.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Rei was handling the grenade launcher better than the bazooka. If her old k-pop band saw her shooting grenades, they would invite to shoot fireworks at a festival. Heeheehee!

"Ah, shit!" Luna stopped.

Rei peeked back. "What is it?"

"Dead end….. We are dead!"